The tiny creatures are incredibly hardy and can survive extremely low temperatures and harsh conditions-- and The Arch Mission Foundation, which sent them into space, believes some may have survived.
Thousands of tardigrades -- also known as"water bears" or"moss piglets" -- were on board the Beresheet spacecraft when it crash landed on the moon in April. Tardigrades are pudgy little animals no longer than one millimeter. They live in water or in the film of water on plants like lichen or moss, and can be found all over the world in some of the most extreme environments, from icy mountains and polar regions to the balmy equator and the depths of the sea.
Bill Nye's experimental spacecraft that sails on sunlight declares mission success Tardigrades have eight legs with claws at the end, a brain and central nervous system, and a sucker-like pharynx behind their mouth, which can pierce food. The Arch Mission put the creatures into a state of"suspended animation," where the body dries out and the metabolism slows to as little as 0.01% of its normal rate.The Arch Mission also sent a 30 million-page library along for the ride.
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